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Cyril Roy Chisholm

Personal details

Mother's name Florence (nee Honey)
Father's name Angus Chisholm
Date of death Sunday 22 August 1915
Place of death Hill 60 Gallipoli
Cause of death Killed in action

Service details

Date enlisted Sunday 7 March 1915
Rank at enlistment Private
Rank at discharge Private
Service Infantry
Unit 18th battalion
Company C Company
Awards 1914/1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Story

Cyril Chisholm (Service No 845) was born in Kiama, NSW in February 1897 and attended Bowral State School. He was a single 21 year old labourer who had served in the Junior Cadets.

He embarked on HMAT A40 Ceramic with C Company, 18th Battalion on 25th June 1915 and arrived on Gallipoli on 16th August 1915. While engaged in the fighting for Hill 60 he was killed by a Turkish bomb. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial.

Information sources

NAA: B2455, CHISHOLM C R

Related links

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/716187/CHISHOLM,%20CYRIL%20ROY

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1480573/

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1793501/

https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=51987